10 Dumbest Heel Plans In Wrestling
8. Vince Russo Refuses To Show His Wrestlers The Script
WCW in the year of 2000 was quite a time to be alive.
With Vince Russo pulling the creative strings in the lead-up to August's New Blood Rising PPV, the Crash TV-obsessed figure opted to unleash a storyline centred around everyone in the company not knowing who was set to "go over" in the script heading into the night's triple-threat between Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner.
Then, in a clear attempt to produce the sort of controversy he'd become synonymous with, Russo had Da Man only arrive mid-way through the match due to a kayfabe motorcycle accident, only to then walk back out of the contest before its conclusion, refusing to take Nash's Jackknife powerbomb for the apparent scripted finish.
But all Russo and Goldberg's bizarre off-script shenanigans did was remind folks that the rest of the action they were witnessing unfold across the WCW product was very much scripted and "fake". And it's not as though this odd way of turning Da Man back face did him or anyone else many favours going forward either.
Dumb doesn't even begin to cover this spell of peak Russo barminess.